Issue 5/2021
Content (45 Articles)
Facing the unexpected: unusual causes of mechanical small bowel obstruction in adults
Ahmad Al Samaraee, Vish Bhattacharya
Association of long-term endoscopic biliary stent placement with choledocholithiasis: a literature review
Koki Hoshi, Atsushi Irisawa, Keiichi Tominaga, Kenichi Goda, Makoto Iijima
Systematic review and meta-analyses of cholecystectomy as a treatment of biliary hyperkinesia
Hazim Abdulnassir Eltyeb, Dhya Al-Leswas, Mutwakil Omer Abdalla, John Wayman
Swallow-induced syncope after magnetic sphincter augmentation: a case report and physiologic explanation
Mathew R. Smith, Shahin Ayazi, Andrew D. Grubic, Xinxin Shen, Blair A. Jobe
Esophageal basaloid squamous cell carcinoma presenting as a subepithelial lesion
Yasutoshi Shiratori, Naoki Kanomata, Koichi Takagi, Katsuyuki Fukuda
Primary lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma of the esophagus with metastatic lymph node and gastric cancer
Kosuke Narumiya, Yosuke Yagawa, Kenji Kudo, Shinsuke Maeda, Yukinori Toyoshima, Kyohei Ogawa, Sho Izumika, Kimito Harada, Masayuki Itabashi, Harushi Osugi
A case of gastric signet-ring cell carcinoma with a long-term retrospective follow-up of 17 years
Junichi Muraishi, Masaki Miyaoka, Kentaro Imamura, Kensei Ohtsu, Takao Kanemitsu, Ken Kinjo, Toshiharu Ueki, Hiroshi Tanabe, Seiji Haraoka, Satoshi Nimura, Akinori Iwashita, Kenshi Yao
Early gastric cancer with lanthanum deposition mucosa by endoscopic submucosal dissection: a case report and literature review
Daisaku Fujimoto, Ai Miyagi, Ushio Tamura, Sayo Takahashi, Seiko Okushi, Junko Miyagi, Hirohisa Ogawa, Toshihito Tanahashi
Synchronous gastric cancer and primary lymphoma of right adrenal gland: a case report
Shuichi Fukuda, Tomoko Wakasa, Hitoshi Hanamoto, Taichi Koyama, Yoshio Ohta, Masatoshi Inoue, Daisuke Terashita, Atsushi Gakuhara, Hideo Tomihara, Katsuya Ohta, Kotaro Kitani, Kazuhiko Hashimoto, Hajime Ishikawa, Jin-ichi Hida, Yutaka Kimura
Migration of a pancreatic duct stent into the peritoneal cavity during chemotherapy for pancreatic malignant lymphoma
Shinya Taki, Takao Maekita, Ryo Shimizu, Yasunobu Yamashita, Mikitaka Iguchi, Masayuki Kitano
Laparoscopic resection of a paraganglioma in the greater omentum mimicking a peripancreatic neoplasm: a case report
Yu Naito, Masaru Matsumura, Shin-ichiro Horiguchi, Mizuka Suzuki, Masataka Kikuyama, Yasuji Seyama
Hemoperitoneum due to a ruptured right gastroepiploic artery following non-interventional endoscopic ultrasonography: a case report
Yuichiro Ozeki, Haruo Miwa, Kazuya Sugimori, Yoshihiro Goda, Akane Hirotani, Katsuyuki Sanga, Shun Tezuka, Kazushi Numata, Zenjiro Sekikawa, Shin Maeda
Primary jejunal amelanotic melanoma: case report and review of literature
Kavya M. Reddy, Tinashe Maduke, Francis Wade, Christine Hachem
Ileocolonic intussusception due to severe endometriosis
Carlos Antonio Morales-Morales, Luis Fernando Morales-Flores, Mauricio Gonzalez-Urquijo, Elizabeth Suárez-Márquez, Mario Zambrano-Lara, Adrian A. Baca-Arzaga, Lucas Octavio Tijerina-Gómez
Surgical resection of undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma (UPS) with jejunal perforation, a suspected case of metastasis of lung cancer
Ryotaro Eto, Isamu Hoshino, Nobuhiro Takiguchi, Toru Tonooka, Hisashi Gunji, Naoki Kuwayama, Itaru Sonoda, Makiko Itami, Masayuki Otsuka, Yoshihiro Nabeya
Henoch-Schönlein purpura and crohn’s disease: Expanding the range of association in pediatric patients
John Gee Hong, Joseph Levy, Evan Stokar
Ulcerative colitis-related postoperative enteritis treated with anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy: two case reports and a literature review
Fumiko Shimoda, Masatake Kuroha, Hirofumi Chiba, Izuru Abe, Kota Yano, Yushi Inomata, Takahiro Takahashi, Yusuke Shimoyama, Rintaro Moroi, Hisashi Shiga, Yoichi Kakuta, Fumiyoshi Fujishima, Atsushi Masamune
Conservative treatment of hepatic portal venous gas resulting from non-occlusive mesenteric ischemia: a case report
Takuya Seike, Tusyoshi Suda, Naoki Oishi
A case of immunoglobulin G4-related sclerosing mesenteritis without other organ involvement
Masaya Kozono, Shiroh Tanoue, Kanna Kiyama, Kenichi Jikuya, Machiko Kawahira, Makoto Hinokuchi, Hiromichi Iwaya, Shiho Arima, Shinichi Hashimoto, Kiyokazu Hiwatashi, Yoshio Fukuda, Masahiko Sakoda, Michiyo Higashi, Koichi Tokushige, Akio Ido
Small bowel obstruction caused by intrauterine device infection
Takuya Seike, Taro Kanaya, Tsuyoshi Suda, Naoki Oishi
Rectal neuroendocrine tumor with extracapsular lymph node metastasis: a case report
Akira Sakamoto, Hiroaki Nozawa, Hirofumi Sonoda, Munetoshi Hinata, Hiroaki Ishii, Shigenobu Emoto, Hiroyuki Anzai, Yuichiro Yokoyama, Koji Murono, Kazuhito Sasaki, Kazushige Kawai, Tetsuo Ushiku, Soichiro Ishihara
A case of immune checkpoint inhibitor-related colitis with a distinctive endoscopic finding of colonic pseudolipomatosis
Tatsushi Naito, Takuto Nosaka, Kazuto Takahashi, Kazuya Ofuji, Hidetaka Matsuda, Masahiro Ohtani, Katsushi Hiramatsu, Yoshiaki Imamura, Tamotsu Ishizuka, Yasunari Nakamoto
Subtotal colectomy for refractory ulcerative colitis with COVID-19 infection; a first case report in Japan
Nao Obara, Kazutaka Koganei, Kenji Tatsumi, Ryo Futatsuki, Hirosuke Kuroki, Eiichi Nakao, Akira Sugita
A rare case of synchronous appendiceal and cecal cancer
Ryo Katayama, Takeshi Aoki, Kodai Tomioka, Yoshihiko Tashiro, Koichiro Fujimasa, Kohei Ono, Tetsuya Kitajima, Sota Yoshizawa, Yoshiaki Ozawa, Kazuhiro Matsuda, Tomokazu Kusano, Tomotake Koizumi, Makoto Watanabe, Masahiko Murakami
Mismatch repair proteins immunohistochemical null phenotype in colon medullary carcinoma
Kyota Tatsuta, Mayu Sakata, Moriya Iwaizumi, Kazuya Shinmura, Toshiya Akai, Takafumi Kawamura, Kakeru Torii, Yoshifumi Morita, Hirotoshi Kikuchi, Yoshihiro Hiramatsu, Atsuko Fukazawa, Kiyotaka Kurachi, Hiroya Takeuchi
Mesenteric phlebosclerosis associated with the oral intake of Japanese traditional (Kampo) medicines containing Gardeniae Fructus
Etsuko Hisanaga, Takaaki Sano, Keigo Sato, Shiko Kuribayashi, Toshio Uraoka
Efficacy of pembrolizumab in microsatellite instability-high locally advanced cholangiocarcinoma: a case report
Katsuya Toshida, Shinji Itoh, Tomoharu Yoshizumi, Tomonari Shimagaki, Huanlin Wang, Takeshi Kurihara, Takeo Toshima, Yoshihiro Nagao, Noboru Harada, Eiji Oki, Yoshiaki Nakamura, Takayuki Yoshino, Masaki Mori
A liver metastasis 7 years after resection of a low-risk duodenal gastrointestinal stromal tumor
Masashi Inoue, Masayuki Shishida, Atsuhiro Watanabe, Ryujiro Kajikawa, Ryotaro Kajiwara, Hiroyuki Sawada, Ichiro Ohmori, Kazuaki Miyamoto, Masahiro Ikeda, Kazuhiro Toyota, Seiji Sadamoto, Tadateru Takahashi
Serum alpha-fetoprotein increases prior to fibrosis resolution in a patient with acute liver failure
Keisuke Kakisaka, Yuji Suzuki, Hiroaki Abe, Hisashi Eto, Jo Kanazawa, Yasuhiro Takikawa
A case of primary carcinosarcoma of the liver with combined hepatocellular carcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma
Takashi Ofuchi, Katsunori Imai, Yosuke Nakao, Shigeki Nakagawa, Yuta Shiraishi, Rikako Kato, Rumi Itoyama, Toshihiko Yusa, Takaaki Higashi, Hiromitsu Hayashi, Tsuguharu Asato, Yo-ichi Yamashita, Yoshiki Mikami, Hideo Baba
Improved indocyanine green retention after short-term lenvatinib withdrawal in three patients with hepatocellular carcinoma
Rie Sugimoto, Hiroki Inada, Yuki Tanaka, Takeshi Senju, Yoshifusa Aratake, Akira Nakanishi, Masami Miki, Lingaku Lee, Terumasa Hisano, Yoshihiro Matsumoto, Yohei Mano, Tomohiro Iguchi, Keishi Sugimachi, Yukihiko Okumura, Kenichi Taguchi, Masayuki Furukawa
Early graft calcification without graft dysfunction after living donor liver transplantation: two case reports
Peilin Li, Masaaki Hidaka, Yu Huang, Takanobu Hara, Kantoku Nagakawa, Hajime Matsushima, Takayuki Tanaka, Tomohiko Adachi, Akihiko Soyama, Weili Gu, Kengo Kanetaka, Susumu Eguchi
Advanced primary adenosquamous carcinoma of the liver with a small cell carcinoma component: an autopsy case report
Takuto Nosaka, Masahiro Ohtani, Shouichi Namikawa, Kazuto Takahashi, Tatsushi Naito, Kazuya Ofuji, Hidetaka Matsuda, Katsushi Hiramatsu, Yoshiaki Imamura, Yasunari Nakamoto
Doxycycline-induced cholestatic liver injury
Sanskriti Varma, John Nathanson, Mitra Dowlatshahi, Armando Del Portillo, Ivonne Ramirez, Reuben Garcia-Carrasquillo
Chemotherapy with gemcitabine for unresectable intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma in a patient undergoing maintenance hemodialysis
Kotaro Matsumoto, Kanji Okamoto, Yuta Namura, Tomohiro Kikuyama, Go Saito, Takako Adachi, Ayako Watanabe, Hiromichi Tsunashima, Nobuhiro Katsukura, Takayuki Tsujikawa, Kentaro Kikuchi, Katsuyuki Matsui, Shinpei Doi
Successful multimodality treatment for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma with tumor thrombosis of the main portal trunk: a case study
Yumi Kosaka, Tomokazu Kawaoka, Yutaro Ogawa, Kei Amioka, Kensuke Naruto, Yuki Yoshikawa, Yuwa Ando, Yosuke Suehiro, Kenji Yamaoka, Yasutoshi Fujii, Shinsuke Uchikawa, Atsushi Ono, Masami Yamauchi, Michio Imamura, Keigo Chosa, Kazuo Awai, Yasushi Nagata, Kazuaki Chayama, Hiroshi Aikata
A case report of hepatocellular carcinoma derived from Rastelli procedure-related congestive liver disease
Yoshihiro Sakano, Takehiro Noda, Shogo Kobayashi, Yoshifumi Iwagami, Daisaku Yamada, Yoshito Tomimaru, Kunihito Gotoh, Koji Umeshita, Yuichiro Doki, Hidetoshi Eguchi
Intrahepatic bile duct rupture associated with IgG4-related sclerosing cholangitis presenting hepatic inflammatory pseudotumor
Yusuke Okamura, Ryuta Nishitai, Naoya Sasaki, Hideo An, Masashi Fushitani, Takano Ota, Michina Morioka, Kiyotaka Kawaguchi, Sayuri Konishi, Shinya Hamasu, Dai Manaka
A case of intraductal papillary neoplasm of the bile duct accompanied by intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm of the pancreas and hepatocellular carcinoma
Takumi Kitahama, Hisoka Yamane, Koichi Mohri, Eiji Fukuoka, Toshihiko Yoshida, Takashi Yamagishi, Hironobu Goto, Akinobu Furutani, Dai Otsubo, Taku Matsumoto, Motofumi Tanaka, Yasuhiro Fujino, Masahiro Tominaga
Successful resection of a huge hepatocellular adenoma
Hideo Tomihara, Kazuhiko Hashimoto, Hajime Ishikawa, Daisuke Terashita, Atsushi Gakuhara, Shuichi Fukuda, Katsuya Ohta, Kotaro Kitani, Jin-ichi Hida, Tomoko Wakasa, Yutaka Kimura
Successful endoscopic submucosal dissection of early gastric cancer located on gastric varices after treatment with balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration
Yuichi Masui, Kazuya Ohno, Ryosuke Itai, Takafumi Kurokami, Shinya Endo
A case of bile duct diverticulum with repeated acute cholangitis due to diverticular stone fall
Tetsushi Azami, Yuichi Takano, Takahiro Kobayashi, Fumitaka Niiya, Naotaka Maruoka, Takafumi Ogawa, Tetsuji Wakabayashi, Kenichi Matsuo, Kuniya Tanaka, Masatsugu Nagahama
Pyoderma gangrenosum with primary sclerosing cholangitis-associated colitis successfully treated with concomitant granulocyte and monocyte adsorption apheresis with corticosteroids
Munenori Kawai, Chiharu Kawanami, Akihisa Fukuda, Hiroshi Seno
Primary pancreatic tuberculosis with a duodenal fistula in an immunocompetent young man
Partha Debnath, Shubham Jain, Parmeshwar Junare, Rahul Deshmukh, Sameet Patel, Sanjay Chandnani, Rima Kamat, Qais Qutub Contractor, Pravin Rathi
A case of necrotic enteritis during neoadjuvant chemotherapy with gemcitabine and S-1 for resectable pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
Takaaki Furukawa, Takashi Sasaki, Yoshihiro Ono, Fumihiro Kawano, Manabu Takamatsu, Chinatsu Mori, Takafumi Mie, Yuto Yamada, Takeshi Okamoto, Tsuyoshi Takeda, Akiyoshi Kasuga, Masato Matsuyama, Masato Ozaka, Yu Takahashi, Naoki Sasahira